Functional language constructs such as higher-order and first-class functions allow me to climb one more rung up the abstraction ladder and focus more on what the code does rather than how it does it.

函数语言结构，如高阶和一级函数，能让我对抽象的理解更进一步，让我更多地将精力放在代码能做什么 而不是怎么做 上。

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Given this flexibility, it isn't surprising that the list is one of the most-used constructs in the Python programming language.

由于它具有相当的灵活性，因此list是Python编程语言中最常用的结构之一已不足为怪。

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One of the current forecast methods is time series forecast which constructs models according to the historical data before using it to forecast the future.

时间序列预测是预测领域内的一个重要研究方向，时间序列预测是一种根据历史数据构造时间序列模型，再把模型外推来预测未来的一种方法。

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I'm going to start this lecture with a discussion of how one constructs a portfolio and what are the mathematics of it.

首先我想讲讲,怎样建立一个投资组合,以及与其有关的数学问题。

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